A second woman came forward Friday to accuse Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault, alleging he raped her in 2000 while they were students at Duke University. The revelation prompted several calls for the lieutenant governor to resign, and left one Virginia delegate saying he would introduce articles of impeachment for Fairfax on Monday.

In a statement, her attorneys wrote that Watson shared her account of the assault with friends in a series of emails and Facebook messages, which her attorney said she has in her possession. Watson also "immediately" told friends that Fairfax had raped her, her attorney said.

"Mr. Fairfax's attack was premeditated and aggressive," the statement reads. "The two were friends but never dated or had any romantic relationship."

“At this time, Ms. Watson is reluctantly coming forward out of a strong sense of civic duty and her belief that those seeking or serving in public office should be of the highest character,” said her attorney, Nancy Erika Smith, in a statement Friday. “She has no interest in becoming a media personality or reliving the trauma that has greatly affected her life. Similarly, she is not seeking any financial damages.”

Watson wants Fairfax to resign from office, Smith said.

In response, Fairfax called for an investigation into what he described as "these unsubstantiated and false allegations."

"I will clear my good name and I have nothing to hide," Fairfax said in his statement. "I have passed two full field background checks by the FBI and run for office in two highly contested elections with nothing like this being raised before."

He called the accusation a "vicious and coordinated smear campaign" being orchestrated against him.

"I will not resign," he said.

The Washington Post reported that a woman named Kaneedreck Adams, an attorney who attended Duke with Watson, recalls Watson coming to her crying in the spring of 2000. The two lived across from each other on campus.

"She was upset," Adams said. "She told me she had been raped and she named Justin."

The alleged attack took place at a fraternity house, the Post reported.

The Post also included an email exchange between Watson and another friend from Duke from two years ago in which Watson wrote about the assault.

On Friday afternoon, some began responding to the latest accusation against Fairfax, including a demand that he step down from office.

"As with with Dr. Tyson's allegation, it needs to be investigated thoroughly because it impacts his ability to continue to serve the Commonwealth," the Republican Party of Virginia said in a statement.

A number of current and former Virginia lawmakers said Fairfax needs to resign, including Terry McAuliffe, the former Virginia governor, and as well as U.S. Reps. Elaine Luria, Abigail Spanberger, Jennifer Wexton, Don Beyer and Gerry Connolly who issued a joint statement.

"The allegations against Justin Fairfax are serious and credible," McAuliffe said on Twitter. "It is clear to me that he can no longer effectively serve the people of Virginia as Lieutenant Governor."

Del. Patrick Hope, a Democrat from Arlington, said on Twitter that he plans to introduce the articles of impeachment on Monday — unless Fairfax has stepped down by then.

Watson's statement lends further credence to the account provided by Vanessa Tyson, who has accused Fairfax of sexually assaulting her 15 years ago in Boston, according to the joint statement from the five U.S. representatives from Virginia. Survivors of sexual violence and harassment deserve to be heard, they said.

"The Lieutenant Governor of Virginia presides over the Virginia Senate and must be prepared to fill the role of Governor," the group wrote in their statement. "It is unacceptable that either of these weighty responsibilities be entrusted to someone who has engaged in the behavior described by Dr. Tyson and Meredith Watson, particularly in light of Gov. Northam’s situation, which we continue to believe requires his resignation."

Senate Republican leaders also weighed in on Watson coming forward, urging police investigations in North Carolina and Massachusetts following the accusations from both Watson and Tyson.

"For the second time this week, Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax has been accused of actions that, if true, constitute major felonies in the Commonwealth of Virginia," the leaders wrote in a joint statement. "We are shocked and dismayed by these credible and serious allegations."

Watson's account comes on the heels of a lengthy statement from Tyson, who has said she met Fairfax at the Democratic National Convention in 2004.

In an article published Friday, The New York Times reported Tyson told five friends about the assault in different degrees of detail over the past two years.

Three of those people told the newspaper that Tyson, a professor at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., identified her attacker to the people as Justin Fairfax, a lieutenant governor or a politician on the rise, according to the report.

Tyson and Fairfax met in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. The two had an encounter that Tyson said began with consensual kissing but then turned frightening when Fairfax became aggressive. She said he forced her to perform oral sex on him. Fairfax said the encounter was "100 percent consensual."

According to the Times, Tyson told a number of colleagues during a lunch group last fall that she had been sexually assaulted years earlier. She told the group during the start of a fellowship at Stanford.

Tyson told them about having been blindsided by her assailant, the Times reported, quoting Elizabeth A. Armstrong, a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan.

"What she told us was pretty much exactly what was in the statement that she released but with vastly less detail," Armstrong told the newspaper.

Watson's attorney on Friday released an email exchange to the Post between Watson and a friend at Duke. In the 2016 exchange, the friend, Milagros Joye Brown, was inviting a group of friends from Duke to a fundraiser for Fairfax as he started his campaign for lieutenant governor.

"Molly, Justin raped me in college and I don't want to hear anything about him. Please, please, please remove me from any future emails about him please," Watson wrote on Oct. 26, 2016.